Rumors & Notes: 1/6/15

TOP STORIES

• Charleston Mayor Joe Riley thanks Holy City for “extended opportunity” to serve (Post & Courier).
  • City to welcome Charleston’s new mayor with several inauguration activities this weekend (Post & Courier).
  • Police announce road closures for mayoral inauguration (ABC News 4).
• Homeless ‘Tent City’ residents, advocates seek allies (ABC News 4).
• Fires break out near Spring Street and on Savannah Highway (Post & Courier).
• Mount Pleasant teen jailed in stabbing death files for immunity under self-defense law (Post & Courier).
• Sullivan’s makes list of Top 10 ‘happiest seaside towns’ (Post & Courier).

FOOD/BEV

• Four strong choices for Restaurant Week steak-and-cake (Post & Courier).
  • Charleston Restaurant Week costs creep past NYC Restaurant Week price (Post & Courier).
• Veggie Bin closes Park Circle location (Post & Courier).
• Fancy Soda Shop Parlor Deluxe Applies For Beer and Wine Permit (Eater Charleston).
• Find comfort and joy in the warming dishes of Park Circle’s Lotus Vietnamese Cuisine (Post & Courier).
  • Fresh and flavorful Vietnamese cuisine comes to Park Circle (Charleston City Paper).
• This Sunday is Save the Light’s Oyster Roast (HCS).
• AutoBanh Food Truck Finds Permanent Home at Tin Roof (Eater Charleston).
• Chinese-Southern cuisine thrives at North Charleston institution (Post & Courier).
• #DinnerOnDave The Green Goat Edition (ABC News 4).

ENTERTAINMENT/SPORTS

• Comedian David Cross Visits the Gaillard Theatre on 2/25 (HCS).
• Last Clemson-Alabama game launched dynasty and led to change (ABC News 4).
• ESPN’s Megacast Returns for College Football Playoff National Championship (ESPN).
• Cam Newton hosts Charleston shooting victims for Buc game in Charlotte (ABC News 4).
• Crab Claw drops “Titties at Noon” video (Charleston City Paper).
• Music-centric inaugural celebration features mayor-elect performing piano jazz (Charleston City Paper).
• The images from City Paper photographer Jonathan Boncek that we tried to cover up (Charleston City Paper).
• Byhalia, Mississippi premieres at Woolfe Street this Friday (Charleston City Paper).

POLITICS/GOV/SCHOOLS

• Obama’s gun plan will play into the South Carolina primaries (Post & Courier).
  • Editorial: Obama’s worthy aim on guns (Post & Courier).
  • Sheriff : Stricter background checks may not stop criminals from buying guns (Live 5 News).
• High school seniors in uproar over last-minute change to exam exemption policy (Post & Courier).
• Summerville mayor, council members to take oath (Post & Courier).
• Cultivating talented workforce among Charleston chamber’s top legislative priorities (Post & Courier).
• Panel takes look at South Carolina social welfare agency (ABC News 4).
• Legislators to participate in session preview (Post & Courier).
• Offshore wind turbine decision could come soon (Post & Courier).
• For overage kids at Northwoods Middle, a pathway to high school opens (Post & Coruier).
• S.C. business leaders support gas tax boost but not sure how much (Post & Courier)

MISC

• Charge dropped against assistant Charleston fire chief (ABC News 4).
• Two taken to the hospital after firefighters extinguish blaze in North Charleston (Live 5 News).
• North Charleston man second charged with attempted murder after shots fired at vehicle (Post & Courier).
• Authorities helping Upstate family search for stolen antique car (Post & Courier).
• Rifle Range Road back open after Wednesday night house fire (News 2).
• Shelters face financial burden, repeat offenders in cases of animal hoarding (Charleston City Paper).
• 22 horses seized from Orangeburg owner; 2 euthanized by animal control (News 2).
• Microbeads banned in many beauty, cleansing products (ABC News 4).

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